A partnership with the Network of Cultural Centers of Color with major funding from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Bates Dance Festival
Artist:  Nora Chipaumire
Description:  Chipaumire will perform her new work “Chemurenga”; teach five master classes in Mothertongue and Repertory; discuss her work and show video as part of Bates Dance Festival’s Global Exchange Panel; begin developing a new work with South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma; and participate in an artists roundtable.
NPN/NCCC Subsidy:  $4,000

California State University Sacramento Theater and Dance Department
Artist:  Nicholas Leichter
Description:  Through this residency Nicholas Leichter Dance Company will provide several opportunities for Sacramento’s residents, educators, and students to learn new techniques in choreography while exposing the community to west African, modern, contemporary and avant-garde kinetic movement through workshops and performance.
NPN/NCCC Subsidy:  $5,000

EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA)
Artist:  Umar Bin Hassan
Description:  ESAA will host a residency with Umar Bin Hassan (of the Last Poets).  Hassan will work with ESAA’s Youth Arts Programs where young people ages 15 – 22 will participate in a 3-day workshop learning how to use spoken word, music, and poetry to address relevant social and political issues.  The residency will culminate with a public performance featuring Hassan reading his original poetry as well as youth reading works they developed in the sessions.
NPN/NCCC Subsidy:  $3,300

Miracle Theatre Group
Artist:  Paul S. Flores
Description:  Miracle Theater Group invites renowned hip hop artist and youth educator Paul Flores to work with Portland area Latino high school students to develop their writing and performance skills within the theme of Dia de los Muertos.  During his stay, Flores will present his own work in performance. The residency will culminate in a public performance by the youth participants at the Teatro Milagro and the writing generated by the residency will be considered text for Miracle’s annual Dia de los Muertos Festival.
NPN/NCCC Subsidy:  $4,000

Ong King Cultural Center
Artist:  Iyeoka Okoawo
Description:  The Ong King Cultural Center (Hawaii) will host a one-week residency of Iyeoka Okoawo, a Boston-based, Nigerian-American artist at the forefront of the creation of a new genre which gracefully interweaves spoken word poetry with jazz, blues, gospel, and new-soul influenced song. The residency will focus upon the intersection of poetry and song through: a major public performance, workshops for at-risk youth and a public conversation with Hawaiian artists (e.g. Paula Fouga), experimenting with hybridized “poem/songs” and processes of connecting traditional music with contemporary performance.
NPN/NCCC Subsidy:  $4,615

Pangea World Theater
Artist:  Keo Woolford
Description:  Keo Woolford’s piece, "I LAND," will be presented by Pangea World Theater three times during the residency, with post-performance discussions and a high-school matinee. An open rehearsal will be offered to audiences via the web.  Woolford will conduct two youth workshops—storytelling through "Hip Hop, Hula and More" for approximately 30 local teens made up of adopted Asian and indigenous youth.
NPN/NCCC Subsidy:  $5,000

South Dallas Cultural Center
Artist:  Sparky & Rhonda Rucker
Description:  Sparky and Rhonda Rucker will be in residence at the South Dallas Cultural Center (SDCC) as a part of a new music series designed to introduce Dallasites to traditional black music forms. Their community work and performances will focus on black folk and mountain music, along with traditional blues and slave songs. Lecture/demos at the Billy Dade Middle School American History cluster will center on the use of black music in the Civil Rights Movement while the presentation to the SDCC Gwendolyn Brooks Reading Club students will focus on storytelling and folk songs as a form of oral histories.
NPN/NCCC Subsidy:  $4,000

The Theater Offensive
Artist:  Renita Martin
Description:  Queer African American playwright Renita Martin will participate in a workshop production residency to expand the pool of women of color artists who are presented and to reach new people of color audience members. Residency activities will include performances, pre and post show discussions, media interviews, and a community workshop at a community college.
NPN/NCCC Subsdiy:  $5,000

VSA of Alaska/Out North
Artist:  John Manal Castro
Description:  Castro, a performer/chef, will teach students the basics of cooking and entrees, so they can make their own soup. With a community partner, students will also learn about the base of their own cultural cooking (their roots) and be invited to create a performance based on the stories of their own personal recipes and explore the rituals of eating that happen at home and in the community.  Participants will take all the recipes and create a community performance/ meal to share with the audience, to creating a community soup where all are invited to partake.
NPN/NCCC Subsidy:  $2,500

Wayne State University
Artist:  Will Power
Description:  Will Power will conduct workshops about socially-aware performance at Wayne State University with an open demonstration by students at the end of the week.  In addition to the workshop, Will Power will also conduct a workshop and perform at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
NPN/NCCC Subsidy:  $5,000